Stopping A Raiding Party

Victoria Sheridan rolls 10 Monster Die for enemies.

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-Bellum, The Western Grasslands near Lake Kyrie-

Wearing her white Steel Matron t-shirt and black skirt with black bike shorts on underneath the skirt and white tennis shoes, Victoria looked nothing like the experienced mage she was. She looked more like she was on the way to a metal concert or to a music store than answering a call to war. Victoria had been in such a hurry to get here that she had left her Azure Armor and Larry back home in Capital Crocus, but she had brought both her Silver Dagger and Hellsinger with her in case she needed backup weapons. They would be more than enough gear to get the job done.

Victoria's objective was to take out a Viking raiding party that was currently raiding the village less than 200 meters in front of her. The Vikings were here to cause trouble in an effort to force Bellum to divide its attention and possibly its forces to deal with them. Victoria had answered the call to give Bellum a helping hand and to give a middle finger to Pergrande and its minions. The brunette would have much preferred to be giving lead poisoning to Pergrande's soldiers, but she would gladly settle for eliminating the raiding party instead.

Victoria had come here on behalf of the Luminous Covenant, but her uncle, her older sister, and her oldest friend were not happy about it. She could still hear their arguments against her participation ringing in her ears.

"You're an idiot for going to fight in another country's war!" Her uncle had told her in no uncertain terms.

"This isn't your fight, Victoria! Stay out of it!" Amy had counseled her.

"Maybe you should sit this one out, Vic." Abigail had gently suggested to Victoria.

Victoria shrugged them off and went anyway. She could not stand by and let Pergrande and its minions make their move without at least trying to stop them. She was under no illusions that killing a single Viking raiding party would seriously hurt Pergrande And Pals, but it would go a small ways towards showing them that there was no such thing as a free lunch.

Victoria continued to move towards the village until she spotted four guys wearing white wolf pelts over brown leather armor standing about 50 meters away walking away from her and towards the village. Whether they were sentries on patrol or just some raiders who happened to be taking a break from raiding was unknown, but it did not matter. They would be her first targets. But before she started her attack she needed to assess the situation and arm herself accordingly.

She was 50 meters away from a village, so she did not need to start off by spraying rounds with reckless abandon. She needed to make each shot count so that she did not end up destroying the village she had been sent to save or hurting anyone when her rounds punched through the walls of the houses. That meant that she would be wise to start off with a weapon with a slow rate of fire and a lot of power per shot to be able to make each shot count.

Victoria considered using her .44 Magnum Revolver to start off with. That was a weapon with a low rate of fire but a lot of power per shot. The only problem was that there were a lot of houses in the village and if she missed the Viking she was shooting at some innocent villager was going to have a bad day. It went without saying that she wanted to avoid that at all costs.

Then she had another idea.

She could maneuver to make sure that when she opened fire the space behind her targets was open terrain.

There was open terrain to the left and the right of the village, but the trick would be maneuvering to give herself that option without tipping off the targets.

Victoria brought out her .44 Magnum Revolver and began to slowly and carefully maneuver to the right, trying to stay out of sight of the four knife-wielding men as she moved. She barely made it ten meters before the one on the far left just happened to turn around and spot her. Victoria quickly raised her .44 Magnum Revolver and fired a Magnum Round at the chest of the man who had spotted her. She scored a direct hit to the man's chest... he grunted in pain and collapsed to the ground as the other three men spun around to face her.

Stealth was no longer an option.

That was good because Victoria was lousy at stealth anyway.

Victoria immediately ran to the right towards open space to try and have them facing the open space to the left when she turned around to shoot at them again.

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Victoria hurried to the right side of the village and tried to keep open space behind her targets, but the three men thwarted her by vanishing into the village itself. The brunette frowned and kept moving, then took cover on the right side of the house she had run to. She had a sneaking suspicion what those guys were up to.

They had caught onto Victoria's strategy and had disappeared into the village. They had likely guessed that she was unwilling to fire willy-nilly at them and were going to take advantage of that by forcing her into close-quarters combat where her weapon's rate of fire would work against her. She could shoot them and hurt them badly, but in return they could attack her at a range where she had no armor to mitigate the worst of their strikes.

Since they held the numbers advantage she was likely going to take a few hits no matter how carefully she approached the situation.

It was best to just get on with it instead of drawing it out. Fortunately (or unfortunately) for her the enemy came to her. She came face-to-face with one of the knife-wielding men and shot at him with a Magnum Round, striking him in the chest and making him yell before falling to the ground on his right side. As soon as she had fired the fatal shot she felt one slash to her back and another to her right shoulder. She had been outmaneuvered by the other two Vikings and paid the price.

Victoria spun around to confront the two Vikings only to see the feet of one of them as he vanished around the corner. Seeing that she was too late to fight back against them, Victoria had no choice but to go after them, but she was not going to follow them directly. She was going to loop around to the village entrance and go from there because following them directly was only going to give them easy ambush opportunities. Victoria began to run towards the path she had used to get to the village.

As soon as the brunette ran in front of the gap between the house she had sheltered behind and the next house she saw a thrown knife whistle by her nose, causing her to stagger and nearly fall from the surprise attack. Victoria spun right and saw one of the two men run right and disappear behind another house. The brunette knew that he was gone and kept moving.

She reached the path she had taken to get to the village and turned right to see a lot of pissed-off Vikings running towards her from roughly 70 meters away. She counted a man in blue carrying a staff and nine red-haired people wearing brown leather armor close behind him. Victoria raised her revolver and aimed for the man in blue but spotted one of the two knife-wielding men from earlier standing in the shadow of the house she had sheltered behind and watched him throw a knife at her with a graceful twirling action. She ducked under it and by the time she could pop up to aim at him he was gone again.

Victoria sighed and aimed at the large group heading her way, who were now 40 meters away. Victoria aimed at the man in blue a second time and fired an Armor-Piercing Round moments before a knife thrown from the left slammed into her left shoulder and caused an intense cold sensation to envelop her left shoulder. Victoria clenched her teeth and left the knife in place for the time being while looking at her blue-clad target. She had hit him with her shot, but he was still going strong.

The man in blue said something to his followers in a language she could not understand and the nine red-headed people instantly broke up into groups of three and dispersed. The groups on the left and right used the buildings as cover while the last group remained with the staff-wielding man, who was still moving towards the brunette as fast as he could go.

Victoria knew what they were trying to do but was not able to do much about it at the moment. She was badly outnumbered and was using a weapon that was strong but had a slow rate of fire. She had chosen that weapon at the start to force herself to aim carefully because of all the innocent people presumably hiding in the houses, but now her choice of weapon was starting to work against her. She would just have to overcome the numerical disadvantage if she wanted to win.

It was going to be tough going, though.

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Victoria started running to put some distance between herself and the blue-clad Viking who was closing in on her. She ran until she was about thirty meters outside the village, then stopped and took careful aim at the charging man, but he managed to reach her just as she was about to fire a Magnum Round and hit her in the left arm with his staff, causing the shot to go wide and zoom above the roof of one of the houses.

Victoria frowned and stepped back just in time for the man to begin to cast a spell on her. Victoria did not even bother running because by the time she could turn around the spell would be cast. She would gamble on taking the hit in order to take him out with return fire. As a result Victoria was caught in the blast of a powerful ice spell that left her feeling intense cold to the point of feeling like she had contracted frostbite in a matter of seconds. She had been rendered almost too cold to effectively retaliate, but she jumped back a single leap, aimed carefully, and fired an Armor-Piercing Round that hit him in the chest.

He made eye contact and rushed at her with his staff, making the brunette dodge repeated staff swings until she could turn and run to avoid him. She began running until she had put another thirty meters between them, where she turned around, set her .44 Magnum Revolver on the ground, and aimed and charged a Beam Cannon spell at her opponent. Victoria fired the spell just as he got to within staff range of her and the beam hit him in the chest, causing him to collapse to his knees and give her one last look of defiance before expiring.

The cold brunette took a deep breath and picked up her revolver just in time to see the nine red-haired warriors rushing towards her. Victoria needed a quick way to take them all out before they could chop her into cold little pieces.

She set down her revolver again and prepared a Claymore Burst, then pushed both of her hands out towards the enemies to cast the spell. The cluster of ten steel ball bearings hit seven of the nine enemies; most of the red-haired Vikings had been hit except for two on the outer edges of the group, who saw what was coming and dodged by dropping to the ground and letting the steel ball bearings intended for them fly harmlessly overhead. As soon as the spell had been cast and the projectiles had either hit their targets or missed the knife-wielding men decided to rejoin the fray and began running towards Victoria with their knives gleaming in the sunlight... she had no idea where in the village they had come from, but they were back for another attempt on Victoria's life.

Victoria grabbed her revolver with her right hand and hurried away from the village in order to prepare to cast her Claymore Blast spell. She needed plenty of distance to avoid doing damage to the houses, but she was not sure how many Vikings would take the bait and follow her to a safe range where she could use it with little fear of inflicting property damage. She would try anyway.

Victoria ran until she was roughly fifty additional meters away from the village, then waited for her enemies to catch up. The two knife-wielding men likely sensed what was coming and retreated to the safety of the village, but the other nine Vikings kept charging and came within range of Victoria's spell. Feeling that that was as good as it was going to get, Victoria shifted the revolver to her left hand, then prepared and cast the Claymore Blast spell with her right hand, punching the ground and sending out a 360-degree blast of steel ball bearings at the targets.

Six of the targets were hit before they could react and they simultaneously fell to the ground, leaving Victoria with three red-haired Vikings who had managed to dodge the spell by being behind their fellows who had caught the projectiles in their place and the two knife-wielding men who had backed out of range before she had cast the spell. Victoria was getting ready to deal with the three surviving red-haired opponents when she spotted two more of those knife-wielding men sprinting down the path towards her from roughly 60 meters away.

Victoria really disliked those guys.

They were fast and agile and trying to hit them was an exercise in frustration. She would deal with them later. Right now she had other concerns, namely the three enemies currently in front of her. They had to be dealt with first before she could think about taking out her other opponents.

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Faced with three red-haired Vikings in front of her and four knife-wielding ones rapidly closing in, Victoria had to work fast. She turned around and retreated another ten meters to give herself some space and to draw in the enemies, then fire at them with one of her crowd control spells before they could dodge it. She was not sure if they would fall for her ruse twice, though. It was worth a try.

Victoria stopped after ten meters of running, set her revolver on the ground, and prepared and cast a Claymore Burst spell. When it was ready she pushed her hands outward towards the enemies and fired off ten steel ball bearings at the targets. To her surprise the spell hit all three of the red-haired opponents and hurt them; one of them collapsed to the ground and did not move again, but the other two were still able to keep going. Meanwhile the other men easily dodged the projectiles by either gracefully spinning out of the way or by dropping to the ground to let the projectiles pass overhead before resuming their advance.

She saw that the four knife-wielding men were maneuvering to surround her, so Victoria had no choice but to cast Claymore Blast. She prepared the spell and cast it, causing a spray of steel ball bearings to emanate from her position. All of the enemies were hit by the spell... the two red-haired Vikings yelled in pain and fell to the ground while two of the knife-wielding men retreated after being hit, but the other two kept running at her at her.

Victoria hurriedly picked up her revolver and put it in her right hand, then stepped back to avoid the swift knife attacks of one of the men while the other circled around her and moved to attack her from behind. She sidestepped a knife swing aimed at her throat only to take one to the back of her left arm near the elbow from the other man. Victoria could not retaliate right away because she had to worry about the man in front of her, who was pressuring the brunette with repeated knife swings aimed at her throat and arms.

She circled around him while trying to get an opening to retaliate, but neither man was willing to let her go so easily. They kept pace with her and tried to stop her by trying to move in front of her and cut off her escape route, but she spun around them and eventually got five meters away, giving her just enough time to target one of them with her weapon.

Victoria aimed at the man on the left and watched him spin to the left to try to dodge her shot, but she aimed where he was now standing and fired a Magnum Round that hit him in the chest as he took a running step towards her. He yelled and fell to the ground, but his colleague closed the distance and began attacking Victoria with his knives flashing in the sunlight with each swing.

She began dodging the swings aimed at her throat, her face, and her arms and elbows by stepping back and stepping to the side as necessary, waiting until he overextended himself before she tried to fire at him. He did no such thing and stuck to basic attacks aimed at vulnerable points, not giving her any room to retaliate. Victoria was hard-pressed to keep dodging his relentless attacks, but unless she wanted to be sliced into little pieces she would need to keep dodging.

Victoria kept dodging until he suddenly lunged at her with a knife aimed at her abdomen. She dodged by the skin of her teeth... his knife passed through the left side of her shirt and ripped it. Victoria spun around and pointed her revolver at him as he recovered, then fired an Armor-Piercing Round the moment he turned to face her for another attack. The shot hit him in the chest and he collapsed to the ground.

The brunette turned to the right to look for more targets and saw still more Vikings charging towards the fray. They were four more knife-wielding men and a big burly guy with a large axe in each hand. Victoria saw them and knew that the fighting was not over just yet.

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Victoria saw the new group of five men charging towards her and took a deep breath.

This was going to be a challenging fight. As far as she knew there were seven Vikings remaining and five of them were heading right for her. The other two knife-wielding men had momentarily retreated towards the village, but they were certain to come back soon enough. They would probably make their move while Victoria was busy fighting their colleagues.

Victoria took the initiative and retreated another thirty meters to give herself some space to fight. She would need it because when the Vikings got to her she was going to need a lot of space in which to dodge attacks. Once she was at the distance she set her revolver on the ground, prepared a Claymore Burst spell, and fired it at the approaching men, who had made some kind of formation with the burly guy in the center with two of the knife-wielding men on each side. From the way they were moving it looked like the knife users were trying to box her in so that the burly Viking could catch her and cut her apart with his axes.

She hit all five with the spell, scooped up the revolver with her right hand, and prepared to retreat an additional thirty meters when she decided to instead make a break for the village. The intent was to break up their formation and string them out so that maybe she could deal with them one at a time instead of dealing with them as a group. Whether they would fall for it or not was something she could not predict, but she had to try it.

Victoria waited until the men were five meters from her, then suddenly sprinted right and made a long run around the men, dodging knife attacks from the knife user on the far right of the group. Once the brunette got into open space she ran for twenty-five meters, then spun around and took aim at one of her pursuers who was twelve meters away. She quickly aimed and fired a Magnum Round that hit him in the chest and took him down in a single shot. Once he went down Victoria then resumed running for all she was worth.

She ran for the village as fast as she could go and stole a glance behind her. The burly guy and his pals were still hot on her heels. She continued to run until she ran another twenty meters, then spun around and aimed for another target of opportunity. She quickly aimed and fired an Armor-Piercing Round at the chest of another knife-wielding enemy who was within six meters of her. He took the shot to his chest and crumpled to the ground.

Victoria turned and continued to run for the village until she reached the back of the house where she had killed one of the knife-wielding men from earlier. She sprinted past the dead enemy's body and was heading for the back of the next house when she took a thrown knife to the left arm and felt an intense cold sensation race through her entire arm. The assailant then emerged from the alley to give chase to the surprised brunette.

She spun to meet her attacker and fired a shot from her weapon, hitting him in the chest but not deterring him from moving in on her. He rushed at her with flashing knives, aiming for her throat and face with quick slashes that she just barely dodged. She dodged another slash at her face but was unable to dodge the slash aimed at her stomach. She was cut across the stomach and the bottom of her shirt was practically cut off.

While Victoria was recovering from that blow she saw a knife cut her across the right wrist, causing her to drop the revolver from the pain. She backed up two steps and quickly formed a gun with the fingers of her right hand, then fired a Derringer spell at the man's chest as he turned to face her and prepared for another series of attacks. The small gray bullet hit him and caused him to yell in pain before he collapsed to the ground. Victoria's win was short-lived because she was about to be boxed in by the enemies approaching from the left and another knife-wielding man approaching from the right.

She quickly scooped up her revolver with her right hand and started running away from the village. Her plan was to loop back to the left and lure them out for another attack that could hit a group of enemies. At this point she needed to play it safe and whittle them down gradually instead of standing still and trading blows with her adversaries. As tough as she was Victoria would lose badly when it was four against one and all of her enemies were skilled close-range combatants who worked together to try and box her in to rob her of her ability to hit and run.

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Victoria started her long run around the quartet of Vikings who had tried to box her in so that they could cut her down. The brunette ran past them as fast as she could go, barely avoiding an axe to her right arm in the process. She cleared the quartet and started running for open space, moving in a zig-zag pattern to try and throw off the aim of anyone attempting to throw a knife into her back.

Victoria ran for roughly fifty meters before she looked back at her pursuers and saw two of the knife-wielding men and the burly guy chasing her. The third knife user had vanished back into the village, but that was fine with the brunette. It would be a lot easier to fight one opponent than it would four at once. Even though Victoria had wanted to catch them all with a Claymore Blast, she would gladly settle for taking down three of her four opponents.

Victoria ran for another fifty meters while zigging, zagging, and doing abrupt direction changes to try and avoid catching a throwing knife to the back, to the head, or any other inconvenient place. That precaution was rewarded while during an abrupt stop to do a change of direction a thrown knife whizzed by her left cheek, missing by a margin so slim that she felt the wind of the knife passing by on her face. Victoria turned around to find that one of the men was within twenty meters of her and was closing fast.

She aimed at him and watched him dodge with a spin to the left, then aimed at him again and fired a normal shot. It missed him when he ducked and he popped up again, performing a graceful spin and throwing a knife at her. She ducked under it and popped up only to find that the burly Viking had closed the distance with astonishing speed.

Victoria turned to run but got a firm kick to the back of her right leg for her trouble, receiving a kick so hard that she almost fell to the ground and dropped her revolver from the sheer pain of the strike. The brunette did not bother to pick up the weapon and instead ran for her life... or did a sort of hobble for her life. Despite her state she managed to put thirty meters between her and her opponents, giving her just enough time to prepare and cast a Claymore Burst spell at her three assailants.

The steel ball bearings hit all three of her targets and gave Victoria enough time to prepare and cast a Claymore Blast spell just as the burly man was charging at her and the knife users were approaching from both sides. The 360-degree blast of steel ball bearings hit all three of her opponents. The two knife users were hit in the chest and collapsed to the ground almost in unison, but the burly guy simply kicked Victoria in the stomach as she rose from casting the spell.

She got the wind knocked out of her and nearly threw up from the force of the kick, but she managed to quickly hobble around the opponent and make a "run" towards the village to put some distance between her and the axe-wielding man before he could hit her with another one of his powerful melee attacks. She could only make it fifteen meters before the combination of pain in her leg and shortness of breath made her slow down until she came to a halt at twenty meters.

Victoria turned to face her opponent and prepared and fired her Beam Cannon spell at him. It hit him in the chest but failed to stop him before he got to her and started lashing out with his two axes. The brunette had no choice but to retreat before him, forcing her to back away until she could get enough space to run. After a meter of backing away she quickly turned left and ran a loop around him, then ran for the open space about twenty meters before she had to pause again.

She was glad she did that because the final knife-wielding opponent would have easily caught her had she ran towards the village to get some distance. As it stood she was starting to feel the effects of her injuries, so she needed to end this fast. Victoria took precious time that she could have spent trying to retreat and instead activated her "Bullet Time" ability, giving her self a gunmetal gray outline and a serious boost in power. She would need all the power she could get to stop these two Vikings before they could take her down.

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As the two Vikings closed in on her Victoria knew she had to end this soon. Her shirt was in bad shape and so was she. She was cut and bleeding in quite a few places and she did not know how much more she could take. Victoria decided to end the fight here and now while she was still able to stand under her own power.

Victoria prepared and fired a Beam Cannon spell at the burly man right as he came within three meters of her. The beam hit him and he dropped to one knee two meters away from her, then tried to stand up and look her in the eye one last time. He failed and slumped forward, expiring where he lay.

The other Viking rushed at her with knives ready to cut into her flesh. Victoria saw him coming and tried to draw Hellsinger for a quick shot at the man, but he closed the gap too fast for her to even pull the large-caliber pistol before he was upon her. Victoria stepped back and dodged several fast swings aimed at her throat, her elbows, and her face before taking another slash to her stomach that exposed her midriff when the bottom half of the shirt was cut away. The man twirled away from her before she could begin to retaliate, then swiftly went on the attack again.

Victoria dodged the flurry of knife swings aimed at her throat and face and this time stepped back before he could slash her stomach again. She stepped back and formed the fingers of her right hand into the shape of a gun, then pointed them at him. He saw what she was doing and began dodging repeatedly, throwing her aim off and forcing her to delay firing until she was sure that she could make the shot. While she hesitated he acted with speed and agility, slashing at her right arm and forcing her to pull it back before she either suffered a cut in a vital place or lost it entirely.

Victoria continued to dodge and weave as the man continued to attack. Eventually she stepped back and formed her fingers of her right hand into the shape of a gun, then aimed and fired a Derringer spell at his chest. It missed. He lunged at her with the knife aimed at her stomach and she stepped right and spun around him, then quickly formed the fingers of her right hand into the shape of a gun while gripping her right wrist with her left hand for support. Victoria fired a Hand Cannon spell at him and it connected with his chest just as he turned to face her for another series of attacks.

He yelled and spun in place, falling to the ground and landing on his left arm before lying motionless. Victoria drew Hellsinger and stood there a minute or two in case he had only been wounded. When neither he or the rest of the downed Vikings moved again Victoria put Hellsinger back in its holster and breathed a sigh of relief.

She walked to where she had dropped her .44 Magnum Revolver and took it into her right hand, then held onto it a bit longer. Victoria would rest a few minutes before she went into the village to sweep for any enemies who might still be hiding in it. She was doubtful that there were any enemies still in the village, but she was not going to rule the possibility out until she had ascertained for herself that there were no enemies in the village.

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-Outside the village, two hours later-

Victoria had swept the village for the past two hours. She had walked up and down every path and had carefully checked behind every house and in every other place that a human being could reasonably hide to make sure she had not missed any of the Vikings. She had come up empty-handed, meaning that she had defeated them all. Even all of those stealthy Vikings wielding knives were dead, which was good because those guys were even worse than the burly man who hit like a freight train.

Now that she was sure that her work was done the brunette dispelled the .44 Magnum Revolver and dispelled her Bullet Time ability because neither of them were needed any long. She took a deep breath and looked at herself. She had been through a lot today.

She was bleeding from multiple knife slashes and being a human pincushion for the throwing knives. What was left of her white Steel Matron t-shirt had so many bloodstains on it that she would have to trash it when she got home. Florence would either have to buy Victoria a new one or she would have to point Victoria towards where she had bought it so that the brunette could buy a new one herself.

At least Victoria had saved the village and all the people within it.

The village was still intact and as far as she knew all the villagers were alive and holed up in their homes. As far as she knew the only casualties were the Vikings who had come to raid the village. Victoria had done her part to help Bellum and The Luminous Covenant. Now she had to figure out how to get back to Fiore.

But first she really needed to rest for awhile.

Victoria not only needed a break because of how exhausting the running and fighting had, but also because she needed time to mentally prepare herself for the reactions of her uncle, her older sister, and her friend. When they got a look at her they were going to be furious with her, but she could handle it. She had already come here against their wishes, so what was another round of complaints about how foolish she was?

Victoria took a deep breath. Explaining to her family and friends what had happened was going to be more difficult than fighting the Vikings had been, but she could do it. Besides, she had done the right thing today and that fact would make facing her family and friends a lot easier.

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